A violent 24 hour period of Pacific activity which followed an already violent week. 10/7 Breaking news--The Vanuatu region quakes have triggered Tsunami alert for as far as New Zealand. Earthquakes also followed on the heels of the major typhoons in both the Philippines and Taiwan, specifically.

An article from Science Daily in June said this regarding typhoons and quakes:

ScienceDaily (June 12, 2009) — Scientists have made the surprising finding that typhoons trigger slow earthquakes, at least in eastern Taiwan. Slow earthquakes are non-violent fault slippage events that take hours or days instead of a few brutal seconds to minutes to release their potent energy

But what we have observed recently is not "slow non-violent quakes", but major ones following typhoons. There must be another reason for this strange coincidence in the Philippines and Taiwan in particular.

Remember, this Typhoon Parma was reported Oct. 3rd, just prior to the quakes in the Philippines and Taiwan, respectively.

Latest typhoon kills 16 in Philippines, sparing capital, then heads toward Taiwan

After a second look, the Quake hit Taiwan (5:30pm Oct. 3) BEFORE Typhoon Parma (Oct. 4, Sunday morning).

So the Science Daily model does not fit here at all, in relating typhoon as causing earthquakes.